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Newtown officials request halt to gifts

The town’s first selectman, police chief and schools superintendent made the request Wednesday through an editor at The Newtown Bee newspaper.

They say since a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators Dec. 14, gifts from school supplies to artwork have arrived in such numbers they’ve overwhelmed the small community’s ability to process them.

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There were probably twenty kids in your neighborhood shot or killed by drunk drivers last year. Why not do something about that? Get to know their families, and find out what they need most.

If seeing something like this makes you stop and THINK about what’s going on around you and what you should be doing about it, that’s a good thing. But just reflexively throwing money at whichever tragedy happens to make it to the national news is almost never the right thing to do.

They say since a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators Dec. 14, gifts from school supplies to artwork have arrived in such numbers they’ve overwhelmed the small community’s ability to process them.